Hello my little Marlins –

We have now arrived in Watamu. It’s a coastal resort some 350 km from the Somalian border. We are quite safe as we have a security guard with a torch!!!

Before I get into beach mode – I just want to share with you a last little Safari tip…….

The Kenyans are very literal people – the humour is definitely lacking!! For example – if I were to say to our guide Isaac please stop at the next toilet – he would then start to point out to me that there aren’t any as this is the Massai and then go on to tell me about Nature, irrigation, circle of life…blah blah blah. At this point Jamie would then inform all of us….again ….that if you gathered Elephant poo (a little known fact and always good to know as you never know when this will come in useful) placed it in gauze and squeezed it – you would get water!! Not being wasteful, once you have squeezed out the water and had a refreshing drink, you could then roll out and dry the rest of it – and hey presto – Paper!! They use this for writing, making photo frames and albums and sell it to the Tourists. So if you were lost in the wilderness with only Elephants for company – not only would you know your survival rate has now increased dramatically – you could also write an SOS note!!

Back to Watamu – the place is much the same as we left it last year although more friendlier. We aren’t the ‘newbees’ anymore!

Being lulled into a sense of false security – I actually thought that today would be our first opportunity to have a lie in. Alas I was wrong! Indy was going fishing today and had booked an early morning wake up call for 5.30. Where is Jackson when you need him? The idea was that he would wake up – get ready and go and I would carry on sleeping. Difficult when all the lights go on and then the questions start…….where are the binoculars? where is the suntan cream? what t shirt should I take? It’s so much easier to just get out of bed and give him the stuff – as he puts on his imaginary ‘stupid’ hat and ‘cant find’ anything. It would help enormously if he at least looked!! On the plus side – Indy did bring me in a hot milk before he left…..Doesn’t look much like Jackson but the service was pretty good!

I was up and dressed by 7.00. There are no Germans here so there’s no problem with deck chairs but being the only one awake with the deck chair boys, I had first choice!

By 9.30 the girls and I were in our positions and that’s pretty much where we stayed for most of the day.

Indy came back from fishing around 5.30 – they caught one Sail Fish! 10 hours of fishing and one fish….hmmmmmmmmmm!!! According to Indy it weighed 104 kg’s….yeah right! I’m sure they have a shop boat parked up way out at sea and the man sells pictures of pretend fish so they dont come back empty handed!!

Tonight is Christmas Eve – it’s a big deal here. A Gala dinner with a big band and dancing. At 7.30 there will be carols, mince pies and sangria before you go in for dinner. Think we’ll give that a miss and just go to the main event….then hopefully by the morning Santa will have found me!!

On that happy note – I wish you all a Merry Christmas. Ho Ho Ho.

Until tomorrow……….

Anna